Ash-cart.



No. 761,126. I P-ATBNTBD MAY a1, 1904.

, J. ALTSGHUL.

ASH CART.

APPLICATION FILED oom, 190s.

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ASH CART.

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ratented May 31, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEieE.

JACOB ALTSOHUL, OF NEWA YORK, N. Y.

ASH-CART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,126, dated May 31, 1904.

Application iiled October 1, 1903. Serial No. 175,262. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JACOB ALTSCHUL, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York,A borough of Manhattan, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Carts, of which the following is a specification. 4

This invention relates to certain improvements in ash-carts by which the .cart may be covered up after it is filled with ashes, garbage, and other refuse or by which it can be partially or entirely kept open during the filling and trimming of the ashes and garbage in the same, so that a great many of the objections heretofore made to the collection of ashes and other refuse byv carts are in a great measure obviated and the collecting of ashes accomplished in acleaner, neater, and less odensive manner; and for this purpose the invention consists of an ash and garbage cart provided with two hood-shaped swinging covers, a lower front cover and a higher overlapping rear cover, said covers being connected by pivotlinks at their sides with the sidewalls of the cart and provided with front and rear flanges that overlap the front and rear edges of the cart, the ange of the front cover being centrally recessed, so as to fit over a projecting bracket at the front of the cart when the front cover is swung into open position; and the invention consists, further, of certain details of construction, whichwill be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved ash and garbage cart, showing the covers in closed position. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the rear and front covers of the cart, respectively. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are side elevations showing the different positions in which the covers can be placed on the cart during the filling of the same with ashes or garbage. Fig. 7 is a vertical longitudinal section showing the covers placed in entirely open position for the trimming and final iillingof the cart.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cart-body of the usual construction, which is provided at its front wall with a forwardly-extending bracketct about midway of its height, as shown clearly in the different gures of the drawings. To the side walls of the cartbody A are connected,by means of pivot-straps I) b, which are attached to the pivots .712 Z13 on the side walls of the cart-body, two hoodshaped covers, afront cover O and a rear cover D. These hood-shaped covers are made of galvanized sheet metal or other suitable material and are suitablyl reinforced by edge frames rivetedthereto by flat rivets, the individual plates from which each cover is made being likewise connected by flat rivets, so that there are no projecting portions on the outer surface of the covers. The 4front cover is made convex or curved from its high rear edge toward the front edge, while the rear cover is made highest at its front edge and curved downwardly toward the rear edge. The side edges of both the front and rear covers overlap the side walls of the cart-body. The front edge of the front cover is provided with forwardly-extending rounded-offportions d, between which a recess cl is formed, which projecting portions d serve to guide and retain the cover on the projecting bracket cr on the front wall of the cart-body when the cover is placed in upright or open position, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The rear edge of the rear cover D is provided with a flange cl2, that I'its over the rear edge of the cart-body when in closed position, as shown in Fig. 1. In this manner the front portions l of the front cover rest on the edge of the front wall of the cart-body and produce thereby the covering of the cart and the contents of the same.

My improved cart may be used in different ways, according as the same is partly or entirely filled with ashes and other refuse and according to the direction of the wind. ln most cases when the cart is charged the rear cover is placed in ,upright position close to and over the front cover, so that the ashes can be dumped from the barrels on the street in the rear part of the cart-body. The rear cover is retained in this position by any suitable means-as, for example, a hook e on the front of the cart-body and a ring e' on the front portion of the rear cover adapted to be en- IOO gaged by said hook. When the rear part is gradually lilled up, the rear cover is lowered over the cart-body, as shown in Fig. 5, and the front cover placed in upright position, so that the front portion of the cart-body can be ii'lled up. When it is desired to trim up the contents of the cart-body, the covers are placed in position shown in Fig. -that is to say the front cover resting on the bracket a, while the rear cover is placed in upright position. In some cases it may be desired to keep both covers out of the way, so as to charge the cart at both ends, in which case both covers are placed in upright position, one overlapping the other at the front portion of the cart-body, as shown in Fig. 7. When the wind comes from the front, Ait is advisable to place the covers in position shown in Fig. 4, so as to prevent the carrying olf of some of the ashes by the wind. When the wind comes from the rear, it is preferable to leave the rear cover in position shown in Fig. 5 and charge the cart from the sides, with the front cover in position shown also in Fig. 5. When the wind comes from either side, the position of the covers shown in Fig. 6 may be used. These different positions of the covers on the cart are regulated more or less, according to the judgment of the driver who dumps the ashes. When the cart is iilled entirely with ashes above its front edge, the surface is trimmed and both covers are placed in closed position, as shown in Fig. l, in which position the cart is driven tothe dump. On arriving' at the dump the rear cover is placed over the front cover in position shown .in Fig. 4 and held in this position while the cart is dumped, so as to discharge the contents of the cart.

My improved covers may either be applied to wagons which are used for the collection of ashes and other refuse by street-cleaning departments or for conveying any other pul- Verized articles-such as building materials, &c.-in which protection against the wind is desired while in transit.

By my improved covers for carts and wagons the objections to the present open collecting-carts are to a great extent obviated and the collection of the ashes and garbage made less unsightly and objectionable than with the open carts heretofore in use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a vehicle-body, of a hood-shaped front cover and a hood-shaped rear cover, one overlapping the other, and independent pivot-straps for connecting said covers to the vehicle-body so as to permit the independent opening and closing of the covers, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with avehicle-body, of a hood-shaped front cover, pivot-straps connecting the same with the side Walls of the vehicle-body, a hood-shaped rear cover, and pivot-straps connecting the same with the side walls of the vehicle-body, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, withavehicle-body, of a hoodshaped front cover, a hood-shaped rear cover, one provided with forwardly-extending portions at its front edge and the other with a liange at its rear edge for resting on the side walls of the vehicle-body, and pivot-straps for connecting the front and rear covers with the side walls of said vehicle-bod substantially as set forth.

4f. The combination, with a vehicle-body, of a hood-shaped front cover, a hood-'shaped rear cover, one provided with forwardly-extending portions atits front edge and the other with a flange at its rear edge for resting on the side walls of the vehicle-body, pivot-straps a rear flange for resting on the rear edge ofthe vehicleibody, the front part of the rear cover overlapping the rear edge of the front cover, and pivot-straps for connecting the covers independently of each other to the side walls of the vehicle-body, substantially as set forth. j

6. The combination, witha vehicle-body, of two hood-shaped covers, a front and a rear cover, both covers overlapping at their lower edges the side walls of the vehicle-body, one cover being made to overlap the other, and

independent pivot-straps connecting both covers with the side walls of the vehicle-body, substantially'as set forth.

, Iny testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB AL'ISCHUL.

Witnesses:

PAUL GonrnL, HENRY J. SUHRBIER.

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